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“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

Source: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Source: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

“A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual

Source: The Musgrave Ritual

“The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Stark Munro Letters

Source: The Stark Munro Letters

“Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“I followed you.'

I saw no one.'

That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

Source: The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Source: The Adventure of the Dying Detective

“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source: The Red Headed League

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Five Orange Pips

Source: The Five Orange Pips

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

Source: The Sign of Four

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

~ Sherlock Holmes”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet